At this time, the sky has a tendency to become brighter, Song Siyuan looked at the pocket watch, sleeping in the middle of the night was caught in the night, and when the monkeys were solved, it was already four or five o'clock in the morning, after the moon wheel light went out, the sky was blue and red clouds were about to come out!

Although this time although the monkey group was solved, it was just no immediate difficulties, as for the Soul Palace, it was still unclear, and after the monkeys were burned, Yue Guanchao looked at the corpses all over the ground, patted the weeds and stains on his body, and took advantage of his efforts to clean up his body, Song Siyuan took a flashlight and carefully observed the monkeys that were burned to death: "These monkeys, are they really just monkeys?" They will use tools and seem to have their own language! ”

"No matter what it is, they all want our lives, and in order to survive, we can only solve these monkeys first."

Song Siyuan picked up the dagger as she spoke, wanting to scrape the faces of the monkeys, but when the dagger was close to the face and pried up, she had already seen that the burnt face was torn open, and it was obviously a human face inside, but it was like a monkey and looked at a layer of hair along the cheeks, obviously half human and half monkey.

"Could it be that we burn all the living?"

Song Siyuan noticed this, and felt a little ashamed in her heart, these words shocked everyone around, Xu Xiake and they also painted a gourd to uncover the burnt dough, the tail behind him, and the monkey hair on his body existed, that is, the face covered by the mask is the facial features of a person!

"No, are these monkeys all pretending to be humans?"

Song Siyuan remembered the strange behavior of the old monkey, and carefully examined the old monkey's charred body, but strangely, this old monkey was a real water monkey.

"This is strange, only the old monkeys are genuine, and the rest of the water monkeys are not right, why do these people pretend to be water monkeys, what do they want to do?"

Before Xu Xiake's words fell, Yue Guanchao remembered the legend of Yue Qingshan, and guessed at everyone: "The story told by the second uncle can't be true, maybe there are really human monkey mongrels?" ”

He remembered that the human-faced monkey that Yue Qingshan mentioned was similar to the dead monkey they had seen, and he even said that he was describing this kind of thing.

Song Siyuan shook her head at everyone and denied it, obviously disagreeing with Yue Guanchao's words: "It is impossible for humans and monkeys to have reproductive isolation, but the situation that Second Uncle Yue said does exist, but it is not a human-monkey hybrid, just an atavistic phenomenon." ”

"Atavism?"

"Yes!"

Song Siyuan believes that it is necessary to explain clearly so that everyone can rest assured.

Biologically speaking, although apes are close relatives of humans, it was also millions of years ago, and human ancestors evolved separately from apes since they came down from trees.

However, no scientific theory can be 100% accurate, and there may be exceptions, because the ancestors of human beings evolved from apes, the heredity in the body is likely to carry fragments of ape body hair, in hundreds of years of evolution, this part of the genetic information is hidden, only under certain conditions, will the recessive inheritance become dominant.

Once a person has a genetic mutation in the mother's body, it is possible to trigger atavism, for example, these children have multiple tails, some have hair all over their bodies, and some have dark spots all over their bodies, which are atavistic manifestations.

These monkeys are likely to belong to the atavism, their whole body is covered with hair, but their faces and bodies maintain the form of people, as for the human-monkey hybridization that Yue Qingshan said, it is likely that the folk tales add oil and vinegar, they don't know that people have atavistic phenomena, so they think they are the children of village women and apes, and then they are rumored and rumored a few times, and it becomes the story they hear!

In fact, it is likely that for some reason, many children have experienced atavism, and the folk believe that fetal malformation is actually a warning from God, and it is easy to understand these babies as a bad omen, and they will either cut down the grass and eradicate the roots in the face of the bad omen, or they will be discarded in the mountains and left to fend for themselves.

The motive for the people of that town to throw away all the hairy children is actually to fear the curse of God.

"And what does the old monkey say?"

Xu Xiake looked at the old monkey, this thing is a real old female monkey.

"This is very similar to what Second Uncle Yue described, there are many monkeys in the mountains and forests of Shudi, and when they see long-haired children, they immediately feed them as monkeys, which can be found in animal behavior."

After speaking, she looked at the crowd, and her tone became mysterious and said: "In the fifteenth century, a hunter captured an orc and gave it to King Henry II of France, this orc looks like a ten-year-old boy, his whole body is covered with thick golden hair except for his mouth, and he looks like a monkey. ”

"It can be seen that although this atavistic phenomenon is rare, it is not extinct, and the motherhood of monkeys is relatively close to human calf protection among animals, and it is extremely loving to the cubs.